Comments on: When Tweeting Less Can Help You be a More Effective Twitter User

By: amit verma

amit verma — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:50:29 +0000

Hey, I just actually created an article on twitter and how often people should post. Would love to get some feedback from you after reading your article, here is the link to the article http://amitography.com/?p=52

By: stephanie

stephanie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:39:07 +0000

I use Twitter primarily to post links to new blog posts, articles and products on my websites. To me, it’s just another way for people to keep up with my website (if they so choose) instead of subscribing to a newsletter. I try to post sparingly and not overwhelm people. I have a number of twitter accounts set up for my various websites so people can subscribe if they are interested in say, yoga, or the environment, or Reiki.

I also subscribe very sparingly to other informational Twitter accounts. That is, accounts that share information and links that are of interest to me. But if I login and find one person has dominated the timeline with 20+ tweets in a row, I unsub. It means I can’t find what anyone else is saying. It would be nice if Twitter had a way to filter people so you’d only see their most recent post and a note to “expand” if you wanted to see all 200 zillion of their latest tweets.

Finally…I don’t “get” this thing of using Twitter to communicate between people – this is what I have IM and email and phone and text messaging for (why on earth would I want to have a conversation between myself and a friend so public)? I still can’t figure out how I can easily find out when someone has asked me a question re: Twitter…I just found one today posted in March that I had no clue was there. (There seems to be no notification of these Tweets when you sign in to Twitter if you happened to miss it in the timeline.)

So this idea that Twitter should be about “community” doesn’t resonate with me at all…I use it to share information and get information. I get my community elsewhere.

Namaste.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:31:29 +0000

thanks very much for this. As someone who recently got “involved” with twitter (lets face it, joining and USING/getting involved in twitter are two very different things) you have a lot of questions and it’s easy to assume the wrong thing

thanks again!

By: J. D. Ebberly

J. D. Ebberly — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:26:37 +0000

This blog is in the process of rapidly developing into a preeminent, authoritative guide of all tweeters. I am in the process of systematically reading this ENTIRE blog. It is definitely worth my time, and I am already encouraging all of my social media-related friends to read it and to subscribe to it!

If you want to be an appreciated tweeter, just take time to think about what you’re about to tweet. Tweet then follow up with lots of whitespace. Think of your audience at all times.

Everyone have an excellent day.

Darren: This blog is really taking off, big-time!! Keep up your great work! I’m learning a lot from reading it and all of the informative comments!

By: Cathy Nagle

Cathy Nagle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:30:21 +0000

I’m finding the website to be very helpful and useful for new tweeters! This information (article) also causes me to think a bit on *twitter etiquette* We need to remember to keep it as much as possible in this new twit social media era. Sometimes I tweet a little and sometimes I tweet quite a bit. I think the longer we and our followers share that mutual understanding of give and take, it allows room for people to be themselves without the fear of being unfollowed if they over twitter a bit from time to time. I prefer to give a bit and put up with a few more tweets than for people to overall not be themselves. I love the interaction and sharing aspect of twitter! ) We should try to picture it this way, like inviting our followers into our homes and being hospitable. I like that perspective. )

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:19:43 +0000

Some folks get so uptight about other Twitters Tweets.

Some folks are using Twitter to try and forge business links, some just to chat to a group of friends.

I’ve got more important things in life to worry about than a Twitter who tells me what they’ve had for lunch. If I find their general level of tweets to not be of interest to me, I unfollow, but I don’t get uptight about a lunch menu, if the general level of their tweets are interesting.

I rapidly unfollow folks who send me NOTHING, but their own marketing or self-promo links. No Big deal, but you bore me. Go away. Unfollowed. End of story.

By: madeleine

madeleine — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:21:06 +0000

Surely if you don’t want people to tweet you don’t subscribe to their tweeting?

By: Roo

Roo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:21:41 +0000

Great advice here Darren, I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve stopped following because they seem to think it important to tweet about anything and everything. I don;t want to know about what they had for lunch and certainly don;t want to be reading tweets they send between each course!
Only thing is, having just discovered this blog I tweeted it, then I just had to follow it with a tweet to this post! Ironic huh?
R.

By: Wesley M.

Wesley M. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:29:37 +0000

I have an avid addiction to being useful with my internet journey and knowledge and a passion for answering q&a for Yahoo Answers. In fact, it is the only remaining Yahoo service that is important to me. So keeping the young and misguided web-wannabees on track, even upstaging so-called TOP CONTRIBUTORS with my correctness is a habit. Someone’s question described themselves as recently ‘broken up’ from a relationship and wanted to know the best social sites on the web. I could depend on the entire q&a crew to answer Facebook, MySpace and a few others but Twitter was absent.

This was my response and twitter introduction:

“without a doubt the most social site on the web today is keeping it short and sweet and by passing the bells and whistles of social networks like myspace and blogs.

It is called twitter and you should do some homework to learn how ‘twitter’ etiquette. To begin, sign up and also bookmark http://search.twitter.com

There you can search for keywords of your interests like ‘the Killers’, or ‘Kanye West’ or a favorite brand of shoes like ‘Puma’ and see who is chatting about this online. Then if someone’s ‘tweet’ interests you it is okay to FOLLOW them. They may or may not respond by FOLLOWING you but later you discover they may not be aware of your interest. Unless you use ‘@reply’ to send them a kind message and introduction.

The secret of twitter is 140 WORDS OR LESS. Any message you submit will be seen for a few seconds on the site’s front page and permanently cached in twitter history for searching. Twitter has millions of users and in those few seconds maybe hundreds of people will see your LIVE MESSAGE.

Here are some good reads about twitter:

http://www.twitip.com/
http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2008/10/23/7-habits-of-highly-successful-twitterers/
“

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:16:03 +0000

I talk to a number of folks on Twitter. Some are tech types, some are friends, some are family. So, sometimes I’ll be discussing what I’m having for dinner with a group of friends. Even Dave Winer is tweeting about having peach pie and pecan pie right now !

Seriously though. I tweet what I want to tweet, from the sublime to the ridiculous from sensible to silly, and all points inbetween. I do not self-censor it, beyond not using offensive terms or cussing, as I realize I cannot control whose eyes my Tweets might reach.

I don’t expect anyone to tweet stuff that I will find interesting 100% of the time in any case, or they’d be my clone! There’s a point at which the s/n ratio means I unfollow them, but then one persons noise is another persons signal.

For example, I followed someone the other day as she had posted an interesting message. I usually go and check out their tweets first, but on this occasion I didn’t. I then got a thank you for following me with a marketing link in, and then about another half dozen marketing links during the day. I think to send marketings links in a welcome message is a bit rude, and I don’t mind getting some self-promotional links – we’re all trying to make a living in this world. What I do find is noise, is when I get nothing else but those. You’ll rapidly get unfollowed.